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May 27, 2005: On making Oracle start a batch file (.bat) on Windows | ||
With Oracle 10g and dbms_scheduler it is possible to start a shell script (Unix) or
a batch file (Windows). The following article tries to show how to do that for Windows.
More specifically, the batch file will delete the alert_log.html. Here's its content:
c:\ora_utils\del_alert.bat
del D:\oracle\databases\ora10\bdump\alert_ora10.log
This batch file can then be executed like so:
begin dbms_scheduler.create_job ( job_name =>'DEL_ALERT_LOG', job_type =>'executable', job_action =>'c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\ora_utils\delete_alert_log.bat > nul', enabled => true, auto_drop => true ); commit; end; /
The redirection of the batch's output to nul (
> nul ) seems to be important in order for the function to run.
When I omitted it, I received an ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: Incorrect function
ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: Incorrect function.
user_scheduler_job_run_details
user_scheduler_job_run_details can be used
to find out if the job has run without error:
set linesize 600 select status, error#, substr(additional_info,1,500) from user_scheduler_job_run_details where job_name = 'DEL_ALERT_LOG'; STATUS ERROR# SUBSTR(ADDITIONAL_INFO,1,500) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAILED 27370 ORA-27370: job slave failed to launch a job of type EXECUTABLE ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:accessing execution agent failed with status: 2 ORA-27301: OS failure message: The system cannot find the file specified. ORA-27302: failure occurred at: sjsec 6 ORA-27303: additional information: The system cannot find the file specified.
In this case, an ORA_27370 is reported. An
ORA_27370 has probably to do that the
OracleJobScheduler%ORACLE_SID% service is not started.
Starting it should eliminate this error.
Thanks
Thanks to Basile Chandesris who notified my of a typo on this page. This typo is now corrected.
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